Peter william paulson



No. 6l9,69|. Patented Feb. l4, I899 P. W. PAULSDN.

MANIFOLDINGY 800K.

(Application filed May 13, 1695. Renewad- Nov. 7, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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PETER \FILLIAM PAULSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO 'JOI-IN UNDERVVOOD, OF NEl/V YORK, N. Y.

M ANlFOLDlNG-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,691, dated February 14, 1899. Application filed May 13, 1895. Renewed November '7 1898. Serial No. 695,684. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER WILLIAM PAUL- soN, residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Duplicating-Books, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to make a simple serviceable duplicating-book, easy of manipulation and compact in form, and used for the purpose of keeping memoranda of sales, &c.; and my invention consists in the features and details of construction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in perspective of one form of my invention, showing duplications on the front face of the stub; Fig. 2, a similar view of the same book, showing duplications on the opposite face of the stub; Fig. 3, aview of a single leaf before folding or binding, showing line of folding and the perforations' In making my improved duplicating-book as shown in the first form I take a sheet of paper of suitable size and dimensions and perforate it along longitudinal lines Ct and b, so as to form three substantially equal sections A, B, and C. The sections A and B may be provided, if desired, with any number of transverse lines of perforations a, so as to form a series of small detachable checks or tickets. The full line a does not appear in practice, but simply represents for the purpose of illustration the line of folding. The portion or section 0 will therefore constitute the stub, which remains permanently in the book-covers A.

When the leaves are made as shown in Fig. 3 and are bound in book form, it is obvious that there is alternately a full-size page and ahalf page, the latter representing the stub, the object in this particular case being to utilize both faces or side of the stub, as hereinafter set forth. The desired printing occurs on the under or reverse side of each full page.

The book being formed and bound as described is manipulated as follows: The section A is folded over along its line of perforations or upon the upper or front face of the stub O and the interposed strip of carbonpaper D, which is substantially of the same by writing on the detachable check or ticket,

and the impression will consequently be reproduced on the stub, after which the check is torn off and used in the ordinary manner. This operation is clearly depicted in Fig. 1, wherein three checks are shown to have been used and torn out and the impressions of the entries made on the stub. WVhen the portion or section A has been used and the front face of the stub thus filled, the carbon-paper is laid between the section B and the stub, and these parts are then turned to the left. (See Fig. 2.) The section A of a long leaf is thus first used up, and then the section B to which it was attached is used. The entries are recorded and the blanks filled out on checks on section B in the same manner as the other checks and the impression thereof is left upon the other face of the stub. As shown in Fig. 2, the tickets are then torn out along the line of perforations b and a. This figure also shows the position of the stub and the leaf B and also the carbon-paper D, some of the upper sections of leaf B having been torn off after records were made thereon for the purpose of illustrating how the back or reverse face of the stub O is utilized. Fig. 2 is distinguished from Fig. 1 in having the section A, which had been turned over upon the stub C, detached and also in having some of the small divisions of the section B removed to illustrate the recording on the reverse face of the stub. After the section B has been turned over upon the reverse face of the stub C a new stub O and also a new section A are exposed, as shown in Fig. 2.

Although I have shown and described the stubs and detachable check or ticket portions as formed from the same sheet of paper, yet it is obvious that they may be made separate and bound together in the proper relation and still come within the meaning and scope of my invention. In this manner I am enabled to utilize both faces of the stub, whereby a smaller-sized book will suffice for the same number of entries. For instance, whereI use lines of eight tickets, as shown in the drawings, I can arrange sixteen upon a page, so that in order to provide a book to contain four hundred entries, for eXample, it is only necessary to have twenty-five stubs instead of fifty. I therefore utilize all the space in the book, and thereby provide an inexpensive and compact duplicating device.

Although I have shown four detachable tickets in the drawings, it is obvious, as is the case with the other form, that the number thereof is optional and may be varied to suit exigencies without departing from the spirit of my invention. The pages or leaves being made substantially as described may be bound in book form,with suitable covers A.

Although I have described more or less precise forms and details of construction, I do not desire to be understood as limiting myself thereto except as pointed out in the claims, as I contemplate changes in form, proportions of parts, and the substitution of equivalents as circumstances may suggest or render expedient.

I claim-- 1. A duplicating-book comprising a series of sheets, each sheet having two lines of perforations dividing the same into three substantially equal parts and bound along a line parallel with one of the lines of perforations and adjacent to said line of perforations whereby each sheet forms a short leaf or stub and a long leaf composed of two parts detachable from each other and from the stub, the obverse face of each of said two detachable parts of the long leaves being provided with permanent printing.

2. A duplicating-book comprising a series of alternating long and short leaves, a long and a short leaf being formed from a single sheet folded over and bound on a line substantially one-third of its length, each long leaf having a line of perforations substantially along the middle thereof and a line of perforations adjacent to the line of binding and parallel with the other line of perforations whereby each long leaf is divided into two substantially equal sections detachable from each other and from the book, the said short leaves being non-detachable and formin g stubs, and a strip of carbon-paper adapted to be inserted alternately between the obverse and reverse faces of the stub and the two sections of the long leaf, respectively, whereby both faces of the stub are used for different entries, the said obverse face of each of said two detachable sections of the long leaves being provided with permanent printing and receiving writing on such faces.

3. A duplicating-book comprising a series of short leaves or stubs (J and a series of long leaves alternating with the leaves 0, and formed of two sections A and B, the section A being separable from section B along aline of perforations a and the section B being separable from the book along a line of perforations b, said sections having their permanent printing upon their reverse faces and a strip of carbon-paper D adapted to be inserted alternately between the obverse and reverse faces of the stub and the two sections AandB of the long leaf, respectively, whereby both faces of the stub are used for diiferent entries.

PETER WILLIAM PAULSON.

\Vitnesses:

SAMUEL E. HIBBEN, E. NEMETT. 

